Comment by lukeschlather

1 day ago

Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it.

Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook, with the assumption that data is precious and you want to share it with your community, and you should err on the side of oversharing so you don't lose any precious moments. Signal is in no way a replacement for Facebook.

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tim-projects  1 day ago

> Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it.

That's... Just not true

> Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook

Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years? Its nothing like this at all.

  • lukeschlather  21 hours ago

    > Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years? Its nothing like this at all.

    I use it all the time. Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and we were reminiscing about visiting another friend's house, and we looked up some old birthday party invitations to help us remember when we had been there.

    • pj_mukh  20 hours ago

      This is exactly what I want Facebook for. The network has all this value baked in, but they'll have to look past its obsession with ads and slop.

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  • Larrikin  19 hours ago

    When Facebook was food this was how it was used and what people liked. Nobody would care what they've done to the product in the past 10 years to optimize for money over mental health